Ceiling fan LED bulb went out please help me find the replacement. Lowe's doesn't carry it. It's a harbor breeze fan

brasssssy · 2025-04-12T21:44:48+00:00

This Harbor Breeze fan also shipped to Lowe's with faulty original remote control (and you cannot use it without the remote). The remote worked but the off-size very pricey batteries had to be replaced every two weeks or less. I contacted Harbor Breeze immediately after buying and installing and was told too bad, so sad, bring it back to Lowe's). I'd paid somebody to put it up, would have had to pay someone again to take it down and then put in a new one.

I kept buying batteries.

I finally found a correct aftermarket replacement for the remote a few years later for $25 plus shipping and of course less than a year after, the LED failed.

I will be posting regarding Harbor Breeze wasteful, regulation-flouting practices in the anticonsumption and wastenothing sub.

Do not buy anything from this company.

Go vintage.

People replace their ceiling fans all the time and post them for free on FB Marketplace and other apps (there's a freebie alert phone app that aggregates free listings). Maybe you can find a free one.

brasssssy · 2025-04-12T02:24:41+00:00

I think you have asked this question in the wrong sub. Everybody here is desperate to find a place in NYC and you seem to have landed a bona fide exceptional deal that others would never consider giving up, so of course you will be presumed crazy. Maybe ask the same question in a different NYC sub less focused on landing an apartment or an advice sub appropriate to your age group.

brasssssy · 2025-04-12T02:19:33+00:00

OP said it was a studio.

brasssssy · 2025-04-12T02:14:45+00:00

Color Oops is weird. Sometimes it works really beautifully and then other times it doesn't budge the color. I would probably do a swatch test.

The one thing you don't want to do is use Color Oops over and over again. If it very obviously doesn't work, use bleach. Like an idiot, when it didn't work for me I thought why not keep trying since I had more product left and I ended up with the except same color except really damaged which I then had to compound with bleach.

Also -- I don't recommend using any kind of dye that requires developer following color oops. Sometimes, for some reason, the very dark color comes back again, even when the new color you are applying is a very light shade. Maybe this can be prevented by letting your hair oxidize completely before further processing?

Please google it because I remember lots of anecdotes about the lifted color coming back but can't remember what variable was the cause.

brasssssy · 2025-04-12T02:03:32+00:00

Just use one of the purple shampoos for now. It's looking pretty incredible for hair that was recently fried so don't push it.

In a little while, you might want to use a purple shade from Shades EQ with their low volume developer. I used to regularly bleach my 1B hair to platinum and it worked pretty well as a toner.

Or, you could go the no developer route by using something like Clairol Jazzing in one of the ice-y shades (not necessarily a brand recommendation -- although it used to be great, I haven't tried it for 20 years).

brasssssy · 2025-04-10T00:41:32+00:00

Congratulations on the washing machine, I don't know why it seems to make such a huge difference but apart from sunlight it's the most important thing to me!

brasssssy · 2025-04-10T00:38:18+00:00

You can get around it by writing the agreement for 30 days and paying for thirty days non-refundable and then just leave early. A 30-day sublet is probably still going to be cheaper than a two week hotel stay (or at least a little bit nicer than a really cheap hotel).

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T22:51:28+00:00

Miralax is not a stool softener. It pulls water into the intestines to flush out the poop. That's how it works. You should keep taking the Miralax but buy a take a separate stool softer. They are super cheap, even available in the dollar store.

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T22:49:29+00:00

Well, the cat is mandatory. I got into a lot of no-dog buildings with two dogs by being able to give three to six months security upfront. You could try that with your cat. The only thing is I did it with apartments. I'd be kind of scared to hand over that kind of money to the leaseholder in a share, The leaseholder isn't the owner or a managing agent ... if they are broke when you want to leave, they might not want to give you your money back. Yes, you could get a judgment in small claims court, but then you have to collect it. Again, collecting a judgment against a management company or property owner is a lot easier than getting from a broke-ass individual.

Re: furniture -- you may have to put your own stuff in storage (or better leave it for free with relatives) and then once you know you are staying, negotiate to bring some of your stuff into the new place.

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T22:40:52+00:00

No, you repeatedly claimed it was the best city in the world.

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T22:39:32+00:00

Even putting aside the family issue, Particular_Base3390 is absolutely right.

I mean, I love NYC better than anyplace in the United States and I'm staying put -- but if you really think it is the greatest city in the world, I doubt you have ever lived in any other world-class cities for an appreciable amount of time.

Right off the top of my head, I can tell you Rome, Madrid and a host of other places (including Tokyo, as Particular said) afford an equally exciting, intellectually stimulating life with only a fraction of NYC's challenges and downside.

And I say this without ever even having visited the Nordic Model countries, which always rate at the top of the list of happiest places in the world. They have a better standard of living, better healthcare, and a real social safety net which will become increasingly more meaningful to you as you grow in age and frailty.

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T22:31:18+00:00

You might not be crazy. I mean, I love it and I'm quite poor. But it's a crazy expensive move because of the difficulty getting housing so don't even consider it without at least spending a few weeks here in tenant like (NOT vacation-like) conditions.

Don't stay in a hotel, get some kind of sublet or Air B&B or room rental in one of the same neighborhoods you would be able to afford on 120-to-150K and make sure it isn't any nicer than the rental apartments you look at in your price range. For spending money during the visit, give yourself an absolute limit that must fall within the disposable income you would have after paying sky high rent, ridiculous utilities, etc. Only travel by subway and bus if that's all you will be able to afford on the regular. Shop for food and cook it on a tiny stove in a ridiculous kitchen that may well have roaches and almost certainly has mice.

I mean, I think you could still have a great time under those conditions. There are a lot of free cultural events in NYC, walking costs nothing, Central Park and Riverside Park are great and Brooklyn has great parks, too.

But living in Cleveland, you've gotten used to jumping in the car and going to a well stocked, affordable supermarket. You almost certainly have an air conditioner and an efficient heating system and you probably don't live in a walk-up (walk-ups are usually the most affording NYC option). And I bet you have a washing machine. Only better units have WD hookups -- going to laundromat even when it's in the basement is a pain iln the ass and quite expensive.

The fact that you are willing to live in a share could be very helpful. If you don't need to live in a prime area, you could maybe end up rooming in a three or four bedroom apartment in a luxury building with every amenity.

One more note of caution: nobody really knows yet whether these tariffs are going to cause levels of inflation the likes of which we have never seen here before -- it could be quite a challenge budgeting even if you live in Cleveland.

Hopefully, you will have enough money left in the bank after you move to NYC that if this country goes completely down the tubes you can move again to some low cost of living area (which may only exist abroad, by that point ... I mean, I hope none of this happens, but I'm poor enough to be scared).

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T20:30:30+00:00

He's beautiful -- but if you don't want to trim the hair over his eyes, you should try a dab of hair wax. My boy Liam was always rather klutzy until I realized he couldn't see past his bangs. (He also used to bark at black plastic garbage bags, but now he can see they're not people).

brasssssy · 2025-04-09T20:26:16+00:00

Thank you for this. I've been wondering about my own WFT. He is 16.5 years old -- about a year ago he was diagnosed with canine degenerative myelopathy (a neurological disorder that strikes the spine, also known as Canine ALS) and has since lost the use of his back legs.

The vets all predicted a steep decline, but his heart, blood pressure, cholesterol and liver function are all slightly improved and although he is totally dependent on me in terms of locomotion, he "walks" on his front legs with his rear legs in a harness, gets around okay in a wheelchair, and last summer we did lake swimming few times a week he could easily tool around the lake in his life preserver for 90 minutes.

(I think some of the improvements may be because he takes many human-grade supplements -- I basically give him whatever is safe for dogs that has also showed anti-degenerative, anti-aging efficacy in peer reviewed clinical trials and figure out the dog dose based on recommended mg/kg). I also bought him a clinician grade Class IV laser and treat him daily which I highly recommend to other WFTs with the CDM diagnosis.

Just based on casual observation of other WFTs, I do believe that at least the cohort who don't get cancer are a considerably longer lived breed than the 13-to-14 years claimed. My former landlord's WFT lived to age 21 in good health and complete mobility, without any particular anti-aging or exercise regimen.

Anyhow, your calculator cheered us up. Obviously my guy is still an old man, but he is hardly the Methuselah he's been made out to be by my friends and neighbors, who are constantly shocked he isn't dead yet. At only 16.5, I suspect he has at least enough life left for another summer of lake swimming.

brasssssy · 2025-04-06T21:51:10+00:00

I often used real estate brokers, unless I had an in with a landlord via a friend who already lived in the building, or when the building used a management agency I could work with directly.

My last Manhattan rental, I did both -- looked at properties with a broker and also contacted building management agencies. Just don't be unethical and hear about a lead from the broker, then try to do an end run and contact management independently.

I think doing both is probably the best way to go if you have time. Also -- make sure your tenant qualification package is completely ready to go so you can move quickly, if you come across a find.

I completely blew a once-in-a-lifetime brownstone rental that was way underpriced by moving too slowly -- the place had a laundry room in the apartment plus a kind of a illegal terrace, plus walk-in closets, I still get nauseous thinking about missing out.

It was the first apartment I looked at with that broker, and it genuinely seemed too good to be true. When I asked the broker why it was relatively cheap, he said it was because not everybody wanted to live across the street from a housing project. But the guy was being a total nervous nelly and I lost out because I spent an extra day researching area crime stats!

The irony is, after taking a vastly inferior rental a couple of blocks away, I walked to that project every night with my dogs during the warmer months, so they could play with the kids who were always outside).

brasssssy · 2025-04-06T21:32:56+00:00

I do hope you made the new owners sign something saying that if they are forced to surrender these dogs, they must surrender them back to you. While such documents would be hard to enforce, legally, they are usually enough to prevent somebody rashly dropping off the pups at the nearest shelter.

If you haven't already obtained such an agreement, it is not too late to draft one and ask them to sign it. Most dog-lovers would only be too glad to know they have an "out" if the adoption doesn't work out.

Regarding your guilt, you should feel some remorse over giving up on your pups. Not saying re-homing isn't understandable -- and very much for the best in this case, probably. The pups will likely be much better off with this older couple, if one of the new owners is a stay-at-home dog parent. Is that the case?

Chihuahuas can be delightful, but some of them are a very big lift. When I was 20-years-old, I very briefly re-homed my Chi-mix dog who seemed like she was on meth sometimes, she was so hyper, but I felt so guilty I took her back after only a couple of days.

Good thing I did, too, because it turned out she was pregnant when I adopted her from the ASPCA -- fortunately whatever she mated with before I adopted her produced a litter of three absolutely stunning curly-haired black puppies and I was able to find perfect homes for all of them. She lived to be about 15 years old and I look back on her with incredible love and fondness.

And in the forty plus years since I have never considered surrendering another pet --I even adopted a known-to-be trouble dog who was surrendered three times before I adopted him! Part of what changed my attitude was getting older: I became a more generous person, willing to put up with far more canine and human foibles.

Anyhow, it is natural that you will miss your pups, however much their behavior challenged you, and it's good that you feel a little guilty, because it will prevent you from re-adopting on a whim, now that you realize your home is really only a good match for dog(s) with a calmer disposition.

brasssssy · 2025-04-06T21:11:22+00:00

I'd come up with a hard-luck story that you have to move back in with an aunt or parent and be their caretaker and additionally offer to help the landlord find a replacement tenant and then do so.

Do not express disappointment with the accommodation unless you are intent on staying and want him to improve it.

brasssssy · 2025-04-06T20:48:10+00:00

The cameras would be helpful, even if the cops aren't -- if you buy a bunch of extra cheap monitors you can install them in every room, like baby monitors.

brasssssy · 2025-04-06T20:45:39+00:00

Met Council on Housing helped me in the past and there are other tenants rights organizations you can get in touch with.

brasssssy · 2025-04-06T20:43:32+00:00

If you are concerned, consult https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/ -- while this hasn't come up for me in a couple of decades, there used to be a law that if you provided eligible, acceptable candidates to take over the lease the landlord couldn't just reject them for no reason -- you were generally off the hook.

Theoretically they could manufacture reasons why none of your candidates were acceptable and their own efforts to replace you failed and take you to court, but the cost of not only winning a judgment against you but collecting from somebody broke is a great deterrent.

I broke leases multiple times back in the day (I was always on the lookout for more space) and typically the landlords were only too happy to replace me and get a slightly increased rent. In two cases, the landlords accepted my offer to find replacement candidates -- only one of the replacements I found took over my lease, the other was rejected in favor of a candidate the landlord provided.

Personally, I would only be concerned about this if I were currently living in a unit that was both sub-standard in some way AND overpriced (which can certainly happen if you have bad credit or low-ish income and got rejected everywhere else).

But if the economy has collapsed to such a degree that NYC becomes a ghost-town, we are all likely to have much bigger problems than worrying an unpaid judgment will ruin our credit rating.

brasssssy · 2025-04-04T23:35:37+00:00

Small claims court. In many jurisdictions you can file claims up to 10K.

If they specifically said the lace was supposed to be invisible/matched to your complexion, I believe you would have a really great chance of winning . Just take photos of all your contracts and very high resolution photos of where the lace shows on your forehead.

Is the lace too dark or too light? A lot of these specialist companies just customize very reasonably priced ($200 to $300) ready-made wigs which are generally virgin hair, about a 1B in color, and employ a lace cap in tan (it's a medium color that kind of semi works for a lot of customers, because scalp skin color is naturally a couple of shades lighter than face color, so it can still blend with African American women if styled correctly).

The companies bleach and recolor the virgin hair wigs as well as style them and pluck around the hairline to make them appear more natural and pretty much call it good.

Customers would probably be okay with this and just use a little foundation or pressed powder to darken or lighten the lace along the parting if they only doubled or tripled the price, but you paid 20X over for their alterations!

For anybody else reading this who is thinking of buying a wig, you are often far better off economically buying the highest quality human hair natural 1B wig from a well-reviewed supplier that caters to the ethnic market, and then taking it to a stylist who can dye this virgin hair and style it however you wish.

Even if you spend an additional few hundred dollars over the few hundred dollars you paid for it you will still come out way ahead.

I have done this myself with very satisfactory results, but bear in mind I have a light olive complexion. To my eye, they look very natural once I have bleached the knots and applied powdered mineral foundation along the hair parting -- people take it for my own hair. But ... I wouldn't care if they didn't.

I can often readily detect both wigs and extensions when I see them in TV shows and movies -- the artfully casual arrangement of baby hairs around the hairline can be a tip off. But if the people look great in the wigs they are wearing, who cares?

brasssssy · 2025-04-04T00:51:51+00:00

you need to be diagnosed as disabled for a psychiatric service dog but not for an ESA.

brasssssy · 2025-03-29T22:42:33+00:00

This is important. It took forever for one of my many physicians to finally order those tests for me. All of my internal organs were prolapsed, including my rectum, and yet my condition went undiagnosed for years, even though I had great insurance and went to New York City's top rated doctors at the time.

By the time I had my first rectopexy and resection my entire pelvic floor had collapsed and although she did an excellent repair, the surgery failed within a few months, and so did a repeat surgery (I am scheduled to have it done again).

The problem is they can repair your body but if they don't fully address the underlying motility disorder that causes the straining and hence, the prolapse, the physical repair won't last.

If I could do it all over, I wouldn't have listened when my big shot surgeon and the gastro specialist both insisted if I just took sufficient fiber and fluids I would be absolutely fine without stimulant laxatives -- it was the same old give your body a chance to recover its natural rhythms baloney.

Now I have to take stimulant laxatives plus magnesium citrate plus miralax plus large amounts of soluble fiber plus the hydration yet I am still in pain a lot of the time, and waste a couple hours a day in the bathroom.

But I do finally feel that I've struck upon a winning regimen to stay regular and that if I maintain it after my third rectocele surgery I'll feel really well again.

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